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mkQNXnbi is a quick hack to generate tagged images from QNX boot images.
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To boot a QNX client with Etherboot you have to consider the following:
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1. You MUST have another QNX box running in the network to provide the
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root filesystem and the license info to the client. QNX cannot use
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e.g. NFS for its root filesystem, as it needs to load a valid license
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from a file on the root fs before being able to start TCP/IP. This
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would lead to a chicken-and-egg problem.
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2. The Net task normally determines the size of its internal tables from
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the actual number of licensed nodes. Since this information is not
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available at boot time when booting from the network, you will have
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to set the max. number of nodes as well as a valid netmap entry for
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the node providing the root filesystem as an option to Net in the
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build file.
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See examples/ws.etherboot and fill in the <blanks>.
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3. The client does not need a TCP/IP license in order to boot.
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4. You can use the boot-server OS of your choice. If you choose to use
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QNX as boot server, the server of course needs a TCP/IP run-time
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license. In this case you have the option of creating the boot image
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on-the-fly and use the macro $(netmap) instead of a hard-coded MAC
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address.
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See examples/ws.etherboot.on-the-fly and fill in the <blanks>.
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A template bootptab for the QNX bootp server is placed in the
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examples directory.
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5. mkQNXnbi expects the QNX image to be supplied on stdin and generates
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the tagged image to stdout. This can be overridden on the command line
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using the options -i <input-file> and -o <output-file>.
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mkQNXnbi can be compiled using e.g. Linux/gcc or on QNX using Watcom C
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(or gcc, if you have it - see http://w3c.teaser.fr/~jcmichot/)
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Bug-reports to <al@alarsen.net>
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2002-01-25
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Anders Larsen
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<al@alarsen.net>
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